Categories: create and assign searchable categories for your portal
Intended Audience: Administrators
Categories let you structure your courses into searchable groups. Create categories once, and use them to organize your resources and catalog.
Create categories for your portal
- From main navigation go to Settings > Course & Resource Categories > Edit Categories.
- Enter up to 20 category names.
- Optionally: change the Category terminology label.
- Save to finish.
Note: if you need more categories, contact the Safety Made Simple Support team.
The screen shot shows an example using the term Topic for categories.
Add a category to a resource
You can add categories to existing resources in your library to help learners find them.
- From main navigation go to Library: from secondary navigation choose Resources.
- Select a resource.
- In Resource Categories, search for and select the terms you created.
- Save to finish.
The screen shot shows categories added to a resource.

Assign a category to a course in the catalog
Categories in the catalog help learners find content by browsing.
NOTE: When learners use the catalog, they can only filter courses by one category at a time.
- From the main navigation go to Courses > your course name.
- From the course Info page, select Catalog.
- In Course Categories, search for and select the terms you created.
- Save to finish.
The screen shot shows some sample categories attached to a course.
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